172 T/je Wisdom of GOD Parti, 

 which each of them contains, will afford Mat- 

 ter enough to exercife and employ our Minds, I 

 do not fay to all Eternity, but to many Ages, 

 ftiould we do nothing elfe. 



Let it not fuffice us to be Book-learn'd, to 

 read what others have written, and to take upon 

 Truft more Falfhood than Truth ; but let us our 

 felves examine Things as we have Opportunity, 

 and converfe with Nature as well as Books. Let 

 us endeavour to promote and increafe this Know- 

 ledge, and make new Difcoveries, not fo much 

 diftrufting our own Parts, or defpairing of our 

 own Abilities, as to think that our Induftry can 

 add nothing to the Invention of our Anceftors, 

 or correft any of their Miftakes. Let us not 

 think that the Bounds of Science are fixed, like 

 Hercules's Pillars, and infcrib'd with a A^^ plus 

 ultra ; let us not think we have done when we 

 have learn'd what they have delivered to us -, the 

 Treafures of Nature are inexhauftible ; here is 

 Employment enough for the vafteft Parts, the 

 moft indefatigable Induftries, the happieft Op^ 

 portunities, the moft prolix and undiilurb'd Va- 

 cancies. Multa 'venientis cevi populus ignota nobis 

 fciet : Multa jkculis tunc futuris^ cum memaria 

 nojiri exoleverit rejervanlur, Pufilla res mundus 

 ejl^ nifi in eo quod qucerat omnis mu7idus habeat. 

 Seneca Nat. Quaeft. Lib. 7. Cap. 3 1. T^he People 

 of the next Age jh all know many things unknown to 

 us : Many are refervdfor Ages then to come^ when 

 we fhall be quite forgotten^ no Memory ofm remain-^ 



ing. 



